The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday published a roundtable where Seth Rogen and six white men who work in animation discussed "avoiding ethnic stereotypes and how to 'break the mold' of princesses."

The panel included Byron Howard, co-director of Zootopia; Mike Mitchell, co-director of Trolls; John Musker, co-director of Moana; and Rogen, who produced and co-wrote the R-rated animated film Sausage Party.

The men were asked about their approaches to "different ethnicities and cultures in animation" and if they were "conscious of running the risk" of offending some groups.

A lot of people on the internet noticed the same thing about the roundtable: "Is this...is this 7 white men talking about ethnic stereotypes and princesses?"

Several people called out Rogen for perpetuating stereotypes in Sausage Party, particularly the sexy lesbian taco character played by Salma Hayek.

In the article, Rogen said he was not surprised that Sausage Party was criticized for ethnic stereotypes.

Seth, you also got some criticism for some of the ethnic stereotypes in Sausage Party, like Salma Hayek's taco. Did that surprise you?

ROGEN No! (Laughter.) You know, our movie is directly about racial stereotypes and how religion divides us and how our beliefs divide us and how we look different divides us and how we speak different divides us. And at the same time, as a lover of Disney animated movies, we took a lot of cues from those types of movies. They don't use it to the same narrative effect, but you look at [Pixar's] Cars and the Fiat is Italian and the [VW van] is a stoner and the tow truck is a Southern guy. It's very much a part of the animation vernacular, and so we thought if we're going to do an animated movie and it's about these things, then it seemed like a perfectly organic opportunity to really lean into all those things and not just do them, but to really talk about them and confront them as head-on as possible — to really make it part of the overall narrative of the movie.

Some also questioned Rogen's expertise in avoiding stereotypes after he "pissed off an entire Asian country" with his 2014 movie The Interview.